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First SpaceX Mission With Astronauts Set For June 2019 (france24.com)
schwit1 shares a report from France 24: NASA has announced the first crewed flight by a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to take place in June 2019. It will be the first manned U.S. launch to the orbiting research laboratory since the space shuttle program was retired in 2011, forcing U.S. astronauts to hitch costly rides aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft. A flight on Boeing spacecraft is set to follow in August 2019. The timetable for both launches has already been postponed several times, but NASA said Thursday it would now be providing monthly updates on deadlines. Both missions are considered tests: the two astronauts transported in each flight will spend two weeks aboard the orbiting ISS before returning to Earth. SpaceX will carry out an uncrewed test in January 2019, and Boeing in March 2019.
Launch date set for 4/20, funding for Doritos and moon pies secured.
Ball of fire. Taking all bets. I knows my shit.
Who ever wrote this article spelled corpses wrong.
Musk hired competent people to run Space X. Too bad he won't do that for Tesla.
But no beer. I love beer.
SORRY TRUMP TRAITORS!
Boeing doesn't play fair, and they would just hate to be upstaged by an upstart, when they've gotten fat off of sucking the federal tit forever.
Expect some unexpected developments, either in the media or on some legislative subcommittee or both, to try to slow Elon down.
Lovin' it, baby!
Suck it up snowflakes. The only thing sweeter than Kavanaugh's confirmation was election night November 8, 2016. Talk about sweet! I'm telling you, that was insulin injection sweet! Can hardly wait for Donald's reelection to FOUR MORE YEARS in 2020.
They are Finally seeing there's something better than money.
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they could just bash elon and short sell tesla stock, ya know.. like everybody else does.
Conservative support of rape is at an all time high! Ivanka and Collins had best get 'em welded shut, because what goes around comes around DUMB WHORES.
The Dragon capsule is no where near being man-rated, so the changes of actually flying with a human is ZERO right now.
As usual, this is just Musk lying about the capabilities and achievements at SpaceX. They can't even fly a satellite to the right orbit (FACT: They have NEVER achieved target orbit in any flight ... relying on the spacecraft GNC to complete the flight), but they want to put a man on the Moon and Mars.
You sound unhinged, comrade. Babushka getting fucked too often in your tin shed?
Seems to be working. Every other post that Mr. Musk makes is a boon to "shortsville".
If he'd stop tripping on his own dick, maybe Tesla stock chart wouldn't look like the Rocky Mountains.
All he need do is build cars and meet production goals, that will fix the stock price.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Of all the articles on Slashdot, this one really WILL attract FUD from Russian trolls. It's Russia that is losing their NASA contract for ferrying US astronauts to the space station when SpaceX (and eventually Boeing) can do it.
The Trump administration had better invent some bullshit reason for continuing to funnel money to Roscosmos or a bunch of maintenance guys who know how to cobble together an ICBM out of spare parts are going to be out of a job.